Adminer is a lightweight, PHP-based MySQL administration tool that is a great alternative to PHPMyAdmin. It comes as a single file and can easily be installed globally on your Ubuntu Linux box, including a Vagrant box.

The prerequisites for installing and using Adminer are PHP, MySQL, and Apache, the so-called LAMP stack. To install them on Ubuntu, in the terminal, run:

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli php 5-mysql mysql-server apache2

You’ll be prompted for configuration information during the installation.

Once the LAMP stack is installed, install Adminer by running these commands in the terminal: